Gardening is part planning, part serendipitous and 100% rewarding – in a pick yourself up by your boot straps sort of way. I love the reliably unexpected moments of discovery. Volunteers and new comers mixing up a planting plan, traveling pollinators and crops that sometimes fail but often succeed. My best plants, like best friends, [...]
Archive for the ‘Native’ Category
May 10, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: BEE, Botanical Moment, Critters, Gardens, Habitat, Inspired, Native
Social Tagging: Creating Natural Landscapes • Garden • habitat • Soaproot
Filed under: BEE, Botanical Moment, Critters, Gardens, Habitat, Inspired, Native
Social Tagging: Creating Natural Landscapes • Garden • habitat • Soaproot
February 29, 2012 by Emily Murphy · 1 Comment
Filed under: BEE, Botanical Moment, Critters, DISCOVER, Grow, Native, Nature
Social Tagging: Discovering Native Plants • Easy to Grow Drought Tolerant Plants • Edible Perennials • Gardening with Nature • Permaculture • Plants for Beauty and Food • Soapwort
Filed under: BEE, Botanical Moment, Critters, DISCOVER, Grow, Native, Nature
Social Tagging: Discovering Native Plants • Easy to Grow Drought Tolerant Plants • Edible Perennials • Gardening with Nature • Permaculture • Plants for Beauty and Food • Soapwort
The oddest thing happened. I was on a perfectly lovely trail run near the headlands when bits of partially eaten plants and plant parts began littering the path in front of me. Roots, fibers and leaves that looked strangely like those of a bulb appeared frantically strewn about, the remains of what appeared to be [...]
March 26, 2011 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Botanical Moment, DISCOVER, Native
Social Tagging: Bee Loving Plant • Ceanothus • Making the Ordinary Extraordinary • Mediterranean Climate • Nitrogen Fixing • No Summer Water Required • Water Wise Gardening • Winter and Spring Flowering Shrub
Filed under: Botanical Moment, DISCOVER, Native
Social Tagging: Bee Loving Plant • Ceanothus • Making the Ordinary Extraordinary • Mediterranean Climate • Nitrogen Fixing • No Summer Water Required • Water Wise Gardening • Winter and Spring Flowering Shrub
I tried to get a decent photo of this particular shrub, Ceanothus ‘Dark Star’, but it proved to be a challenge. It sits in a neighbors front yard, in a bed smashed between the driveway and street parking. There is always a bright red sedan on one side and a silver hatchback on the other. [...]
March 11, 2011 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Botanical Moment, Critters, DISCOVER, Grow, Native
Social Tagging: Hummingbird Sage • Native Plants • propagation • Salvia spathacea • the story of how the black lab met the humming bird sage
Filed under: Botanical Moment, Critters, DISCOVER, Grow, Native
Social Tagging: Hummingbird Sage • Native Plants • propagation • Salvia spathacea • the story of how the black lab met the humming bird sage
What do a dog and a lesser known California sage have in common? Well, technically nothing. However, a few weeks back I was witness to and mediator for a bit of a tangle between an unwitting sage and, of course, innocent dog. I had just returned home from a class I’m taking on San Francisco [...]
February 9, 2011 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: BEE, Ecology, Native
Social Tagging: Bringing Nature Home • Coevolution of Plants and Animals • Douglas Tallamy • Ecology • Entomology • Entomology and Plants • How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants • Native Plants • Plant and Animal Food Web • Plant Chemistry • Wildlife Ecology
Filed under: BEE, Ecology, Native
Social Tagging: Bringing Nature Home • Coevolution of Plants and Animals • Douglas Tallamy • Ecology • Entomology • Entomology and Plants • How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants • Native Plants • Plant and Animal Food Web • Plant Chemistry • Wildlife Ecology
It takes a certain amount of street smarts to think like a native. Confidence, adaptability and the right flavorful pizazz help too. But what does it mean to be native? The dictionary says something like this: “the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one’s native land”. [...]